Faculty Profile for Dr. Morgan Starr Sobol

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Dr. Morgan Starr Sobol
Assistant Professor — Biology
Scholarly/Creative Work

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Postdoc research: NASA Astrobiology Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D., 2022, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
M.S., 2018, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
B.S., 2016, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Research Interests

 Microbial Ecology and Evolution; Origin and evolution of life; Computational Biology

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Zoheir, A. E., Sobol, M. S., Ordoñez-Rueda, D., Kaster, A.-K., Niemeyer, C. M., & Rabe, K. S. (n.d.). A genetically-encoded three-colour stress biosensor reveals multimodal response at single cell level and spatiotemporal dynamics of biofilms. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.23.509207
  • Rivier, A. J., Myers, K. S., Garcia, A. K., Sobol, M. S., & Kaçar, B. (n.d.). A hybrid nitrogenase with regulatory elasticity inAzotobacter vinelandii. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.02.543473
  • Sobol, M. S., Rucker, H. R., Libby, E., Kaçar, B., & Anbar, A. D. (n.d.). Ecological resource competition as a driver of metallome evolution. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.11.627971
  • El Khaled EL Faraj, R., Chakraborty, S., Zhou, M., Sobol, M. S., Thiele, D., Shatford‐Adams, L. M., … Popova, A. A. (2025). Drug‐Induced Differential Gene Expression Analysis on Nanoliter Droplet Microarrays: Enabling Tool for Functional Precision Oncology. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202401820
  • Jones, C. L., Camps-Castella, J., Smykala, M., Sobol, M. S., & Inomura, K. (2024). Seeing through the gray box: an integrated approach to physiological modeling of phytoplankton stoichiometry. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2024.1505025